Support for map

[juzeon]

Hi. Thanks for the handy library first.

Seems the implementation is not working for map at the mo. When I try:

var a []string
m := map[string][]string{
	"k": a,
}
b, _ = json.Marshal(Initialize(m))
fmt.Println(string(b))

I got:

{"k":null}

I have tried to add:

func initializeNils(v reflect.Value) {
	// Dereference pointer(s).
	for v.Kind() == reflect.Ptr && !v.IsNil() {
		v = v.Elem()
	}

	if v.Kind() == reflect.Slice {
		// Initialize a nil slice.
		if v.IsNil() && v.CanSet() {
			v.Set(reflect.MakeSlice(v.Type(), 0, 0))
			return
		}

		// Recursively iterate over slice items.
		for i := 0; i < v.Len(); i++ {
			item := v.Index(i)
			initializeNils(item)
		}
	}

	// Recursively iterate over struct fields.
	if v.Kind() == reflect.Struct {
		for i := 0; i < v.NumField(); i++ {
			field := v.Field(i)
			initializeNils(field)
		}
	}

+	if v.Kind() == reflect.Map {
+		for _, key := range v.MapKeys() {
+			value := v.MapIndex(key)
+			initializeNils(value)
+		}
+	}
}

But with no effect. I debugged to find out that seems in this case value.CanSet() is false because map value is not addressable (reference).

Would be appreciated if anyone can find a solution to this!

[juzeon]

This library resolves my issue 👍